(04 Apr 2015, 11:37 am)palatine3833 wrote 5 years ago, no-one would have believed that Arriva would be the first major operator in the North East to be 100% low floor considering the amount of step entrance stock they had.
Just thought of that aye!
Also, you need to look at what it was being used on, two/three years ago the X21/22 was solid Olympian allocation, with the odd B10 thrown in!
As much as I slate Ashington depot, you have to admire them in a way, I know Olympians were very reliable, but to keep 16 year old buses in that good a condition so that they could be sold on for further use, even when they were allocated to express routes every day shows something!